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World Journal of Surgery
Published in: World Journal of Surgery 9/2005

01-09-2005

Invited Commentary

Authors: C. Ohmann, Ph.D, C. Franke, M.D.

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 9/2005

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This study by Tzanakis et al. [1] (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7853-6) on the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is well designed. A new diagnostic score is developed on a training-set and tested prospectively on a separate test-set. The radiologist is blinded, the score developed by multivariate statistical techniques, and the analysis performed and presented adequately. In addition, the authors have tested several published diagnostic scores [2] and have compared the results to the newly proposed scoring system. …
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Tzanakis NE, Efstathiou SP, Daniilidis K, et al. A new approach to accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis. World J. Surg. 2005; in press
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Ohmann C, Yang Q, Franke C, et al. Diagnostic scores for acute appendicitis. Eur. J. Surg. 1995;161:273–281PubMed
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de Domball FT. Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain, Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1980
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Franke C, Boehner H, Yang Q, et al. Ultrasonography for diagnosis of acute appendicitis: results of a prospective multicenter trial. Acute Abdominal Pain Study Group. World J. Surg. 1999;23:141–146PubMed
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Terasawa T, Blackmore CC, Bent S, et al. Systematic review: computed tomography and ultrasonography to detect acute appendicitis in adults and adolescents. Ann. Intern. Med. 2004;141:537–546PubMed
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Metadata
Title
Invited Commentary
Authors
C. Ohmann, Ph.D
C. Franke, M.D.
Publication date
01-09-2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
World Journal of Surgery / Issue 9/2005
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-005-1139-x

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